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Teachers board ink six per cent contract Pay is the only item Hal ton elementary school teachers and the board of education will negotiate next year be cause of a freeze in the twoyear contract signed Thursday at Burlington Twenty five new teachers will be hired next fall which means a lowering of the pu pil teacher ratio to from Salary hike for elementary teachers Six per cent this year the same figure agreed to by the board and high school teachers earlier this month In all the agreement benefits wages professional development fund and increment is per cent slightly less than the high school teachers receive Assuming what the board head negotiator Bill termed a not reasonable number live percent for wages in the second year of the contract the percentage increase would be he said The Elementary Teachers Association is made up of the Women Teachers Association the Ontario Public School Men Teachers Federation The least a new public school teacher can be paid in gross earnings is ft while a lop ranked teacher with years experience makes 4S4 Teachers below the highest category pick up an increment of about per year Cost to taxpayers for tbe first year of the contract 1528255 according to Priest ner High school teachers take about million In tax dollars under their one year agreement There are 1 public school teachers in Halton schools Also included in the contract is a new formula for calculating pupil teacher ratio Protection for elementary school teachers jobs is also locked into the con tract for two years It is declared surplus by the board a teacher such as a libr ary technician Is to be let go before federation member Like the high school teachers contract public school teachers have the board paying per cent of the dental plan and Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan The elementary school teachers con tract also received much the same come as did the high school teachers from the board In recorded vote four of the trustees voted against the settlement Ten were in favor Burlington trustee Fred Armitagc spoke against the agreement though he said he thought the innovation of a twoyear settle ment was a good move He reminded the board the contracts with both groups of teachers will have a substantial impact on the mill rate He continued by saying he hopes the public remembers why the mill rate used In calculating taxes will in Dr Helen HowardLock a member of the trustees negotiating team voted against the contract as she did against the one for the high school teachers She told trustees she wanted lo give a higher per of the Increase to the lower end of the salary grid and lower figure to the top end She also suggested the board avoid marathon meetings such as the one started by the mediator Mediator Graeme put teacher and board representatives through a hour meeting in mid Decern ber which resulted in the memorandum of agreement Public school teachers voted about mid January to accept the mediator s contract suggestion Milton trustee Ivan Armstrong retuc tantly supported the proposed agreement He indicated he Is unhappy with the per raise Another concern is the persistence by this group to spend to the celling If it continues we are only rushing in the day when the province will have to do our business for us Tcdehers collective bargaining consul tant Mark Gill land indicated after the agreement was ratified by the board that the reduction in the pupil teacher ratio went some wav in teacher de mands In a survey per cent of our membership indicated the number one priority was a reduction in size and main Bill Watt agreed that on salary the settlement compares well with oilier agreements in the province We didn negotiate to increase position v rel ition to the rest of the pro vince but to maintain it Watt said Trustees voting against the contract were Armitage Crosier Howard Lock and One and fourth Year No J ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY JANUARY 31 I ages Twenty Cents Parking situation can of worms council is parking He continued There is merit in the hesitant open a can of Id be scared that we motion he said but it worms by passing a are putting the limited Is something we cannot motion by Ward One amount of parking in involve ourselves in this councillor Wood pardy Mr year Mr Wood asked hat n Mr council to consider he between sited Mr Wood sit leasing or purchasing own and see what the land In I he town for parking lots owner are verbal quest Che Hills committee members I here is a need for parking in his ward Mayor Pete municipally owned land be put in a special fund town has available hinted at the sale of land for funds a trade etc Mrs Serjeantson ac cused he council of was ling time She pointed out a motion passed previously that evening had all monies raised from the sale of general committee there a re cars per be put in a special meeting Monday even household Wed be logo an eventual extension of or new municipal building Wed ing told Hie councillors service lo the he felt it wos a very com to provide plicated motion and ad parking I did not realize Committee chairman he would not of worms I Walter said he was support It Deputy waa opening I thought I against the town engineer Ted was doing a service to the ding money for parking said the matter should be people of Hills because dug into before It is ad Councillor Marilyn ype of economy where dressed in council and pointed out shopping plazas and suggested the parking town has no money rural businesses have be lor provide their own any money for a while parking The merchants She suggested bringing and people concerned the mailer back next should pay for it them year Councillor Mike Ives Armstrong agreed He The motion will be may end up said Let it die a natural passed on to the Parking public death Authority for their input put The mayor explained that If we start to thc confusion that makes up parking ton Hills without and I predict an early Spring Pete Pomeroy predicts no future growth here Hills mayor helping industry all more will get as much There groundhogs In them white hills two Acton Free Press news hounds discovered this week Free Press editor Hartley Coles right and ports editor Hob In Inscoc left cornered a ground hog to get the low down on the forecast for the balance of winter Miss Groundhog sniffed and sneezed twitched her nose wiggled her ears then announced there will be an early spring The groundhog which surfaced near the Free Press building refused to be pinned down on a date lor winter departure However she left no doubt in the editors spring would warm up to Acton from the south The only r editor who failed to meet the appointment with Groundhog was Helen Murray who was digging Into another assignment Photo by I minds Pete does not see Acton growing In the next several years Mr was speaking to a group of Norval residents at that vilhge s annual general meeting Thursday evening He said that due to sewage capacity limitations the town can only grow between to peopic However he said Beardmore which is the largest In in Hills has problems and lie had made his stand at he can sewage capacity the As long as I in the town s system as they mayor office Beardmore win number one priority explained Smiles chuckles need even If that means no growth in the town Georgetown the mayor said at the same time can only grow another 7 people He noted Focal Properties which Is inevitable will Hydros overloaded ICG tells MPPs 7000 in damages Tired of complaints about his newspaper the take most of this 7 editor published the sewage capacity He sees Commandments in place Georgetown growth to of on editorial A letter the south west of the arrived the next week town with the Cancel my subscription rounding hamlets going You re getting too per untouched by the in crease The province has en electric power for its needs for years the Legislature select com on Ontario Hydro learned from the Inter Citizens Group ICG Monday The purpose of the presentation was to show the all party committee there is no electrical power trapped at the Bruce nuclear genera t ing station ICG spokes man John Minns said the OMB hearing con- Hydro is as much as Tuesday Ontario Hydro north south per cent overbuilt for Its told a recent Ontario line were also needs The Porter Com Municipal Board hearing produced by the ICG for mission on long range electrical power tied at the Bruce plant ICG chairman Bill Mann Osprlnge and He- ford Gardhouse Milton also attended the meet Queens Park The ICG wants Ontario Hydro the legislative commit tee Oneofthe said Monday was the first time he heard there is no bottling up of power at the generating station said Minns By using Ontario planning suggests a fig improve its study Hydro figures Minns said methods he demonstrated for the Documents tabled at committee how all the power generated from the nuclear station can be taken to market along existing lines including the Bel wood connection north of Hills The Bel wood connec tion was a key to the ICG presentation to the earlier this month Tbe connection Is able to pass on power from the Bruce to Kitchener and to and on inlo Ontario Hydro s grid The ICG also showed the committee Ontario sumed 10 megawatts is produced burning fuels and nuclear energy Those mega walls are available per ure of percent for the cent of the lime says amount Ontario Hydro is ICG overbuilt said Minns He The new forecast for suggests Ihe figure on Ontario Hydro loads is the amount of power month actually used is closer lo and Minns predicted it per cent will have great There Is no need for on the public Ontario Hydro to expand ties building programs said the ICG spokesman Either the second half of Today there is Bruce generating of power in complex for the newer Ihe province which Ont Darlington A Kilelencr mm re minor injuries after his pickup in with parked tractor trailer January Gordon Murclns was southbound n llifh way just north of ra mosa Township id when the collision McKenzie appointed to HHA Garnet W Pat Acton has been appointed lo the Housing Auth only replacing the retired Brown clerk of region Mr has been ippointed by Minister of Housing Claude Bennett in but Hie announcement did not come through until recently new appointee Is a rmcr councillor for Hilton Region and was principal Robert Little for several years Mr McKenzie Joins Jack Milton and farmer clerk of Ihe Acton Mrs Burlington am on Mrs D S Oakvlilc and Duncan Sinclair Oak in caring for units in Halton I include both senior citizen housing and geared to income homes are IB family units in Acton with a 52 unit sen ir apart building presently under construction is one existing citizen apartment with units In Georgetown there is a total 157 senior units in George- wii in wo buildings ere ire no family units to the Authority slat In Milton there are senior citizens units with I just completed but not rented The town Is currently making an ipplication for geared to- Mr noted Ihe Housing Authority ks rental and muintcninec of the buildings He pointed out any problems or inform i lion cm be dealt with ji housing staff at toll free for Acton residents Hydro indicates i reliable supply accord ing to Minns He went on to demonstrate that for past two years consumption of power has been less than megawatts That megawatts left Is excess power which cannot be exported because there Is no mar ket according to the ICG Of Ihe power con plant will be cancelled shelved for ten years Minns said Model off to Paris Larry Ciglen acting principal Woman dies in accident lias been named principal of Robert 1 and follow death I rmcipal Allen week Mr Ciglen bus been Victoria is off vice principal Robert to Paris France lo com her European modelling career Victoria of Rock wood left Sunday lie N vice prlnc will be lJeciuse Mr Ciglen time will be spent travelling I nek and forth the two schools lie s lie has had to up his teaching of ides five six stud end baton who id job pari lime w been hired full time Welsh modelling firm Toronto for almost years and it was through this firm she was offered contract wilh a Paris An Oakville woman mined head injuries died Monday evening Another daughter after the car she was Amy was travelling in was in a treated for minor injuries headon collision on and released Seventh Line between driver of the other and Balilna vehicle James Milne SI fad police said of Fifth Road Grand Victoria last Grace Copland of Valley suffered a broken assignments Poplar Avenue was right leg in the accident lne of a pronounced dead at which occurred at about Dentvnc Georgetown and District 7 40 m will be first Memorial Hospital aired February 19 Her husband Peter Victoria has Just com suffered head injuries Li out grade at Acton but released after northbound high school and Is the Thirtynine men la the above others In the next row Jack Greer John Romans treatment according to a ve the brow of a daughter of Mr and Mrs the Club In Acton Tbe held tint annul Dwe Gary AI Clark George Pat and hospital spokesman c collision she was reunion In The Mug coffee shop In the basement of the Murray Stew Robert on In back row are Dong Leys Ralph Hall Ken Memorial building on Mill Street last week In front row Lloyd Brooa tad Bruce Shoemaker and Harry tor all H It Jim Rom Jim Otterbcln The charter member are In ton Ross Benson and Silting on the bench are Ed BUI Benson and Clarence Rogovaldsoo Jack McGeachie Harry and Gord Little for few at sin September en the schools were twinned mime after several weeks of last week by J fl preparation for her six superintendent in monh slay the city of until lights She been June ace rdmg Mr modelling for the Judy tigic Their southbound COp- crowned Miss Acton Fall daughter Paula vehicle Fair last September She transferred to Sick nd venicie Childica hospital in Investigation of the Tuesday Toronto Sun as Toronto with undcter- accident continues Sunshine Girl Education trustees marked the memory of Acton school principal Hazen Allen with a ute tribute at the beginning of Thursday a meeting at Burlington Mr Allen principal at Robert Little School and School died after a brief illness One man who served as a vice- principal under Mr Allen Ron Cussona Mr Allen s life was testimony for the Chris tian community Decisions Mr Allen made were on fine practical reasons said Mr Cussona And he was to en courage and support